The Old Year Knocked Out Belidays Crafts
The piece describes holiday accessory fashions and leisure crafts for women, detailing embellished slippers, embroidered bags, and fabric decorations. It highlights velvet and corduroy shirtwaists, fancy buttons, passementeries, and lace trims, with examples of embroidery techniques for bags and the popularity of pompadour ribbon, silk, and scrim materials in a period-appropriate, store-window tone.
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Belidays
Santa Claus
Philadelphia
Pompadour de Signa
Dresden
Paris
The New Year’s Eve Photo Plot and Social Rules
Polly plans a staged domestic scene with Billy Wilson to win a magazine illustrated article prize on The Making of an Ideal Home. Maude helps, but the scheme backfires when a flash photo reveals their ruse, jeopardizing Polly’s hope to write the piece.
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Palle
Cnusen Record
Young Women’s Guild
Ahe
Thas
Polly
Pally
Billy Wilson
Aly
Haly
Maude
Billy
Maud
Morris
Ing
Ada
Titan
Hinds
St. Uty
My. Wilson
Mana
New Rescue
New Year Menu and Resolutions Echo Across Society
The excerpt mixes a festive menu including oysters on half shell and plum pudding with reflections on New Year resolutions. It contrasts culinary details with humorous social vignettes about personal habits, gifts, and manners, hinting at broader themes of self-improvement and inward choice shaping the year.
New Year Gift Trends Inkc Jewelery and Fashion
A New Year's gift discussion highlights porcelain buttons belt clasps and watch fobs in gilt and silver cord designs. Shoppers see vibrant color sets pink roses forget me nots and red scarlet combinations with dainty heart shaped lockets and new dainty porcelain buttons for cuffs.
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Joe Cary
Kunmsas
Wil
Lolly
Happy New Year Chorus Echoes Through Winter Air
A jubilant verse extols a fresh year as storms fade, skies brighten, and hopeful thoughts replace sorrow. The playful voice of youth bursts forth, urging cheer, courage, and renewal, with age and polish fading before the universal wish for a perfect, nationwide new year.
The Mayor Refuses Comma Lesson at School
A Saturday Review report notes an inspector visiting a school where officials dismissed punctuation lessons. The mayor allegedly said, We don't borber about commas and eucit Uke, prompting the inspector to write on the blackboard a quoted line about a trayecto.
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Gane
Alion
Chrogingtan
The Virgin's Bower by Mary Thatcher Higginson
A lyric poem describes a sacred garden guarded by green walls of lilies. It warns that only a reverent stranger may enter to admire the blossoms, lest a reckless soul trample the blooms and bring ruin to the delicate beauty.
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Delhi
Mary Thatcher Higginson
Hidden Gold In Teeth Figures A Vast Wealth
A century old piece argues that millions of dollars in gold are continually used for dental fillings and lip service reports ignore this wealth. It claims annual gold use for dentistry around 2 million, rising trends, and suggests up to 10 million dollars uncirculated in mouths while never impacting national wealth.
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Menton
Union States
Hidas
Phus
Giant Sunflower Mystery From the Garden Wall
A whimsical tale describes a great yellow sunflower growing tall enough to peer over a garden wall. A narrator voice exclaims marvels as the plant rises, inviting thoughts of distant meadows, hills and a road where people pass by, hinting at a world beyond the garden. The fragment hints at a child’s wonder and imagined journeys.
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Santa Claus
Mho
Moehl
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Darling
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